How to cook Bitter Gourd

Bitter melon, also known as bitter gourd or karela , is a unique vegetable-fruit that can be used as food or medicine.It good for diabetes.Bitter gourds come in Dark green to light green color and consumed before turning yellow.Here I’m sharing bitter gourd recipe,karela recipe or how to cook bitter gourd? .This will help you learn how to cook bitter gourd and how to reduce bitterness of the bitter gourd. For two servings of bitter gourd you need

Take of the seeds of half kg of bitter gourd and wash them well.Cut bitter gourd into semi circles and fry them in 4 tbs of oil.
Slice 2 medium size onions and add to the fried bitter gourd and over the lid for a minute
After a minute open the lid,add salt to taste and mix karela(bitter gourd) and onion.
Cover the lid and let the onion cook and turn golden brown on medium flame
When onions turns golden brown add in your spices,here I’m adding a pinch of red chilli powder ,turmeric and tomatoes altogether.
Cover the lid and let it cook till the oil start separating.
When oil start to separate ,you can serve it right away with Naan or to reduce/balance the bitterness of bitter gourd add in a capsicum and let the cook together for a minute or two
Add in some chopped parsley/coriander/mint whatever on hand or skip this part .
Serve the cooked bitter gourd with yogurt to offset the bitter taste. In Pakistan this particular recipe”How to cook bitter gourd?” is generally known as karela sabzi or karela curry.Another popular bitter gourd recipe is stuffed bitter gourd wher gourd are stuffed with spices and then fried .It is serve with naan, chapati, roti .

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